Questions

Treaty of Paris/Outcomes of War

 French lose its possessions in North America

 Spain an ally of France loses Florida  Indians allied with France feel British

animosity  British angry with colonists that aided

France  British in great debt  Forces the colonists to unite and were

irritated at British

Grenville’s Actions  Over all will increase authority over

the colonies  Permanently stationed British troops

in the colonies and require the colonists to maintain the army

 Colonial manufacturing restricted as to not to compete with British industries

 British navy patrolled the coast of colonies for smugglers

Grenville’s Actions

 Sugar Act of 1764- increased the tax on sugar and lowered the tax on molasses

 Currency Act of 1764-colonial assemblies had to stop issuing paper money

 Stamp Act 1765- imposed a tax on every printed document in the colonies-newspapers, pamphlets, deeds, licenses, etc.

 Mutiny Act of 1765/Quartering Act- colonists had to house and supply British troops

 Will bring in 10x the revenue from the colonies

Sons of Liberty

 Group of men from Boston that gathered together to protest the British actions in the colonies. They terrorized British gov’nors, tax collectors

Townshend Acts

 Enforced the Mutiny Act by suspending the New York Assembly

 Townshend Duties- new taxes on imported goods such as lead paint, paper, tea

 Creates a custom commission board to end smuggling

Sources of Revolutionary Ideas

 Political experiences of the colonists

 Religious beliefs  Radical ideas from within Great

Britain that spread to the colonies  Ideas of John Locke

Revolutionary Ideology  People needed to safeguard against

possible abuses of power in the gov’t  English system was good because of

its division of power- no one group became to too powerful

 But, English kings were becoming powerful

 No taxation without representation

Coercive Acts  In response to the Boston Tea Party  Closed the Port of Boston  Decreased the powers of self-gov’t in

Massachusetts  Permitted royal officers to be tried in

England  Troops would by quartered by

colonists

1st Continental Congress  Rejected a plan for colonial union

under British authority  Statement of grievances which

included a demand for repeal of all repressive legislation

 Recommended military preparations be made for defense against a British attack

 Agreed to a series of boycotts that would stop trade with the British

1st Continental Congress

 Formed a Continental Association to see that all matters were enforced

 Agreed to meet the following spring

Declaration of Independence

 Written by Thomas Jefferson  Approved July 4th 1776  All political connections are

broken with Great Britain  Listed grievances with King

George

Declaration of Independence  All men created equal  men had the right to life, liberty, and

the pursuit of happiness  Gov’ts are instituted among men

deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed

 When a gov’t becomes destructive it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute a new gov’t

 Signing the D of I was an act of treason

Articles of Confederation

 The ruling document for the USA  Creating a weak federal gov’t and strong

states  Could make treaties, declare war, maintain

an military, and coin money  Could not tax  Required unanimous vote for ratification

or amendment

Advantages/Disadvantages of Rev War

 British Advantages  Lg. strong army and navy  Resources, money  Experienced military

 British Disadvantages  Fighting overseas  Didn’t see it at first as a major war  Made mistakes

Advantages/Disadvantages of Rev War

 US Advantages  fighting for a cause- their lives  fighting on home ground  financial aid from abroad

 US Disadvantages  new military- no experience  small military

Ordinances of 1784+1785

 1784- divided the western territory into 10 self governing districts each could petition Congress for statehood

 1785- Congress created a system for and selling western land. Land north of the Ohio River was marked off into rectangular townships each having 36 sections, four sections set aside for fed gov’t and the revenue of the sales went to the creation of a public school system

Northwest Ordinance 1787

 Created a single Northwest Territory out to the lands north of the Ohio River. The territory could be divided into 3 to 5 territories.

 Needed a pop. of 60,000 to apply for statehood , granted freedom of religion, right to a trial jury, and prohibited slavery

Virginia Plan

 Gov’t made up of three branches: legislature, executive, judicial

 Legislature to have 2 houses, the lower house delegates elected on the pop. basis, upper house delegates elected by the lower house

New Jersey Plan

 One house legislature all states had equal representation

 Gives Congress expanded powers to tax and regulate commerce

The Great Compromise

 2 house legislature  Lower house states would be represented

based on pop. each slave would be counted as 3/5 a person to determine representation

 Upper house states would have 2 representatives each

Federalists

 Supported the Constitution  Promoted a strong federal gov’t wrote the

Federalist Papers  Hamilton, Franklin, Washington

Antifederalists

 Leary of the Constitution  Afraid of increased taxes  Afraid of decreased states rights  Afraid of infringement of individual

liberties  Complained of no Bill of Rights  Patrick Henry, Sam Adams

Republicans

 Modest fed. gov’t  Economy based on agriculture-rural

America. Most people would own their land, leery of urbanization

 Popular in rural areas in the South and the West

 Jefferson, Madison

Federalists

 Strong central gov’t  Centralized nation with a complex

commercial economy, urban  Popular in Northeast and a few Southern

seaports  Washington, Adams, Hamilton

Jay’s Treaty

 US avoided war  American sovereignty over the entire

northwest and established a commercial relationship with Great Britain

 Highly debated but passed  Paved a way to a settlement with Spain,

The Pickney Treaty

Alien and Sedition Acts

 Alien Act- enacted obstacles for foreigners to become citizens

 Sedition Act- gov’t could prosecute anyone libelous or treasonous against the gov’t (Republicans saw this as a way to destroy them)

Judicial Act of 1801

 Adams passed this to increase the number of judges appointed to the Supreme Court, John Marshall will be appointed under this and will become Supreme Court Chief Justice

 These judges will be known as midnight judges

2nd Great Awakening

 People must readmit God into their lives, live piety, rejects rationalism

 God’s grace could be attained their good works and faith

 Increased number of Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, women, slaves

Industrialization

 Complex process whose chief feature is the production of goods by machine rather than by hand

Marbury vs. Madison

 Outcomes  Invalidated an act of Congress by asserting its

power to interpret the Constitution  Established the Supreme Court as chief

authority on the Constitution

Louisiana Purchase

 Purchased from Napoleon, emperor of France for 15 million dollars

 Land west of Mississippi River to the Rocky Mtns. from the Canadian border to the edge of Texas

 Doubles the size of the US

Embargo Act

 Prohibited American ships from leaving the US

 Caused a depression in the US

Causes of the War of 1812

 Impressment  Interference with neutral trading rights  British alliance with Indian tribes in North

America

Treaty of Ghent

 Ended the fighting  US had right to trade freely with Great

Britain and The British empire  Mutual disarmament in the Great Lakes

area no guarding of area

Westward movement

 Pop. growth  Land in East was being taken up  Availability of western land

Adams-Onis Treaty

 Spain ceded all of Florida to the US and its claim to territory north of the 42nd parallel line in the Northwest

 US gave up its claim to Texas

Missouri Compromise

 Maine enters as a free state  Missouri enters as a slave state  Prohibits slavery in the rest of the

Louisiana purchase north of the 36 30 parallel

Monroe Doctrine

 The US would consider any European intervention in the Western hemisphere as an unfriendly act

 Shows US is a dominant power in the Western hemisphere